Word: underground
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Since most Etruscan tombs are underground, they are found by pushing a steel probe into the earth or sometimes by stamping and listening for reverberations. Then a hole is opened with a pick and shovel and the prizes dragged out. Just two weeks ago, in the area of Cerveteri from which the Met's vase is alleged to have come, the police found one group at work; the robbers fled, leaving their haul of 51 valuable Etruscan objects behind...
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS will start blasting a 40-foot-deep hole in the bedrock of the Yard between Lamont and Houghton Libraries this summer to make room for the Nathan M. Pusey Library. When it is finished in 1975, the Pusey Library will be an almost completely underground, three-level addition to Harvard's library system, and the first new building in the Yard since Lamont...
President Pusey authorized the Library to begin a preliminary study for building a four-story, completely underground new library, with the stipulation that the appearance of the Yard be maintained intact after the library was built...
Stubbins says that his major concern in the site study was "allowing future options for maximum expansions." The University can--if the need arises--double the library's size after it is built through more underground construction. The University also has the option of tearing down the former President's House at 17 Quincy Street and building an above ground wing of the library...
...will have carrels for 60 graduate students and 30 faculty, as well as open tables and a few seminar rooms. Stubbins has not yet finalized the library's interior design, but he says that it will have about 30,000 feet of floor space. It will be connected by underground passageways to the three libraries surrounding...